This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

Thousands of locks professing undying devotion line the metal chains of Lotus Peak.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.